Geomagnetically induced currents – Notícias, Pesquisa e Análise – The Conversation

Typical amounts of solar particles hitting the Earth’s magnetosphere can be beautiful, but too much could be catastrophic. Svein-Magne Tunli - tunliweb.no/Wikimedia

14 maio 2024

Solar storm knocks out farmers’ high-tech tractors – an electrical engineer explains how a larger storm could take down the power grid and the internet

David Wallace, Mississippi State University

Every few centuries the Sun blasts the Earth with a huge amount of high-energy particles. If it were to happen today, it would wreak havoc on technology.

The Earth has a powerful magnetic field. NASA

8 novembro 2017

Mysterious ‘geomagnetic spike’ 3,000 years ago challenges our understanding of the Earth’s interior

Christopher Davies, University of Leeds

A strange patch of extremely strong magnetic field occurred over Jordan in 1000BC. Could we be about to face another one?

The Earth’s magnetic field is hugely important to our survival. NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre/Flickr

27 janeiro 2017

Why the Earth’s magnetic poles could be about to swap places – and how it would affect us

Phil Livermore, University of Leeds e Jon Mound, University of Leeds

A geomagnetic reversal may have a severe impact on humans.

When the sun flares, space weather is on its way to Earth. NASA/SDO

17 agosto 2015

Damaging electric currents in space affect Earth’s equatorial region, not just the poles

Brett Carter, RMIT University e Alexa Halford, Dartmouth College

Our power grid infrastructure on Earth is more vulnerable to space weather than previously thought – with susceptibility in more regions and even during quiet geomagnetic periods.

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